The Washington critic., 1887-03-14


number of customers Is to he accommo'
dated. There Is absolutely no excuse
for not having cars enough at hand to
give every man, woman or child a scat
ON great public occasions the crowd
and the direction It will take can almost
invariably he calculated upon before
hand, so that there shall be no lack Of
transportation facilities, while orli'
narily the cbb and food of railway
travel Is so regular and systematic that
to make suitable provision for It's
wants is no less simple and practicable
than 1t Is right and just.
On this point Mr.. ingalls, ls certainly
little on His comparisons do not
consist. We can excuse the hotel
keeper for what he cant do, but not
the railway company for what /, can
and should but persistently will not,
do.
THE IAaOirdl, BoDkmdker is opposed
TO the establishment of State printing
offices, and commcnds the printers OF
st. Louis for entering protest against
the proposition for creating such an in
stitution In that State. 1t says there
Is no argument TO prove that the State
should do It's own printing which would
not apply to It's manufacturing Its own
paper, owning its own stone quarries,
making It's own furniture, shoes for It's
officials, clothing for It's clerks, &c, To
strengthen Its position, the B,96mdktr
refers ms follows to the Government
Printing Onicc
We have only one printing Office by which
To judge how the pul'ic would be- served. and
that is In Washington There wurkmon du
not labor full dnc. ur Il tLcylo they get pail
for overtime. aud there every tn usaud ems
.ot costs the Government over adollur. aul
every token done ON the presses over sixty
cents, with very ordinary work at that. From
- 10 ~ per cent. wuuld be saved by putting
out the printing TO contract, It isnot this OK
ample that Missouri ought 10 initiate.
OuR esteemed contemporary, the No.
GoUdt R,ppJii.da. in thanking n weekly
exchange for cpmplimcuting 1t in
knocking out C.) It's contemporaries in
the Trottcr fieht, says it accepts the
compliment but woull suggest that II
was brains, not muscle, that won the
fight, from which the inference is plain,
that the weekly exchange has male u
mistake in altributiug the victory to
our e, c., the " Il,
ANoTHEn railroad Incident, picu
liarly shocking In the fact that most of
its victims were women, is reported
this morning. 1t occurred on the Bos
ton and Providence Railroad, in West
RoNbury, passenger train being pre-.
cipitated through high bridge. 1t Is
something of relief to the horrors of
the disaster that the prompt arrival Of
The fire department prevented the burn.
ing Of the wreck.
IT Is mentioned by the New York
Sun as an instance of the dullness in the
street that during the last three days of
the last week only Is; shares of North
ern Pacific, corporation with $0o,-
coo, 600 capitalization, have been traded
In on the combined exchanges of New
York, London and Philadelphia. 1t
was the Baltimore and Ohio IDEAL, >"
perhaps, that struck the sreculators
dumb.
THE Post suggests that it is about
time for the Democratic party to get
rid Of Samuel j. Randall II it would
have Triumphant future, Respect
fully referred TO the Democrats of the
Third Pennsylvania district, who at the
last election returned him To Congress
by a vote Of 1870 TO 9.ol) for the Re.
publican candidate.
SAM RANDALL. is m obslructionist,
says the Post, which is doubtless true;
but the list of obslrurriunis,s would be
very incomplete with no other name
than Randall's on IT. The member OF
the House who has the will and the
power is very apt 10 obstruct what he
doesn' want 10 pass.
lltE tItNtliUl J.t""tF looks upon
the ST. Petersburg consulate as con.
venient sort Of currency for the Presi.
dent to use in paying Off his political
debts. Ii has already frozen out one
Georgia man and now another has been
placed in the cooler.
1T is now given out that Alexander
of Ba,tenburg, late ruler OF Bulgaria,
will visit America next winter and
spend month in Washington. He Is
young and good looking, but other.
wise of no account-especially no bank
account.
NEW BOOKS RECEIVED.
From \. S. Witherbee & Co. (Brentano's.
The GAME OF DRAW POKER. BY John W
Keller, author of tangled Lives,n etc
Including the Treatise by Il. c. schenck
| and Rules for the New Game of Progres
sive Poker. New York; White, Stoke,
4 Allen.
COOKERY roR lSvALlDs. by Thomas ]
Murrey, author OF "Fifty Soups, "Breik
fast Dalnties," etc. New York; White
Stokes & Allen.
Thirsting for Knowledge.
The story comes from Washington tha
young man from Boston lately asked on
of the Justices of the supreme Court wha
would probably be their decision In tn
Bell telephone case now being considered
by them, The Justics is reported 10 hav
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